The opening concert of the International Musical Olympus Festival will take place on May, 22 at 19:00 at the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall. The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under the baton of Sergey Smbatyan (Armenia) will play the symbolic ouverture “Vivat, Olympus!” written by composer Andrey Petrov specially for the opening of the first Musical Olympus Festival. After that Marc Bouchkov, 1 prize winner, Montreal International Musical Competition (2013), will perform violin concerto by Jean Sibelius.

The second part of the concert will start with G. Verdi’s works: first the audience will listen to the overture to the opera ‘La forza del destino' (The Power of Fate), and then the principal performer of the Nuremberg State TheatreHrachuhi Bassenzwill sing arias from operas ‘La Traviata’, ‘Ernani’, and ‘Il Corsaro’.

Finally, Yuri Vlasov, prize winner at the Elena Obraztsova International Young Opera Singers' Competition, will present to the public arias from ‘Prince Igor’ by Borodin, ‘Il Trovatore’ by G. Verdi, and ‘Don Giovanni’ by W.-А. Mozart.